🇮🇷🇺🇸| Reuters report: Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi have spoken directly by phone several times since the start of the war in Iran in an attempt to find ways to calm the situation

🇺🇸| CIA Director John Ratcliffe said in a closed-door meeting that Iran is very close to possessing nuclear weapons if they do not complete the destruction, contrary to US intelligence assessments.

🇺🇸| CBS-report: President Trump believes that neutralizing the Fordow facility is important due to the speed at which nuclear weapons can be developed. President Trump believes that there are not many options left, and that completing the operation in Iran means destroying the Fordow facility.

Homies: 😎
Bromance: 🤣

Very much possible

🇮🇱| Israeli missile interception rate drops to 65%

▪️An Israeli official told NBC that only 65% of Iranian missiles were intercepted in the past 24 hours, down from 90% the day before. The drop suggests growing strain on Israel’s air defense systems amid ongoing barrages.

🇮🇳🇭🇷| Mou b/w India & Croatia

🇺🇸| "Based on the fact that there's a chance of negotiations that may or may not take place with Iran in the near future, I will make my decision whether or not to go within the next to weeks"

White House Spox Karoline Leavitt on US's dscn on Iran

🇮🇳🇧🇩| At Bangladesh national day, High commissioner Riaz Hamidullah hamidullah_riaz recalls Indian support to the country in 1971; Says, 'we are neighbours, partners in progress

🇧🇩Hamidullah_riaz:

▪️"Strategic necessity" for India, Bangladesh to engage; Need to 'reimagine bilateral & regional cooperation
▪️Bangladesh is open to engaging with India on diverse issues
▪️India has always valued a stable, peaceful, democratic, prosperous Bangladesh; Will continue to support people for Bangladesh

Bangladesh back to senses?

🇮🇷| Iran's Supreme Leader's Family Traced Back to 🇮🇳Indian Village

The grandfather of Ayatollah Ruhollah Musavi Khomenei (🇮🇷's 1st Supreme Leader 1979) was born in Kintoor village near Barabanki 🇮🇳 and moved to Iraq before Iran in 1834.

Musavi retained the noscript "Hindi" as a nod to his ancestry.

🇷🇺| Russia & 🇺🇦Ukraine both exchange for PoWs under the Istanbul deal.

🇦🇫| Taliban & 🇨🇳China, AMU Darya oil extraction contract worth 500m$ terminated by the interim afg government.

▪️Taliban accused China of repeated violations of the contract obligations by the contractor Chinese company.

Biggest data leak ever: 16B passwords exposed

Forbes reports an unprecedented breach: over 16 billion accounts with passwords from Apple, Google, Telegram, Facebook, GitHub, and even government services have been leaked online. The source is widespread malware campaigns (info-stealers).

This dwarfs the previous record of 184M accounts leaked in May 2025.

What to do now:
1. Change your passwords (email, banking, socials)
2. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA)
3. Avoid suspicious links and attachments

🇰🇵| 🇮🇱Israel is a ‘CANCER-like entity’ – North Korean Foreign Ministry

🇮🇱| "Gaza no longer exists, neither does Lebanon, and the same will happen to Iran. The Iranian axis is broken" — Benjamin Netanyahu